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title: Introduction
description: Open source infrastructure for tracking events
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Trench is an event tracking system built on top of Apache Kafka and ClickHouse. It can handle large event volumes and provides real-time analytics. Our team built Trench to scale up the real-time event tracking pipeline at <a href="https://frigade.com?utm_source=github-trench-readme" target="_blank">Frigade</a>.

## Features

- 🤝 Compliant with the Segment API (Track, Group, Identify)
- 🐳 Deploy quickly with a single production-ready Docker image
- 💻 Process thousands of events per second on a single node
- ⚡ Query data in real-time
- 🔗 Connect data to other destinations with webhooks
- 👥 Open-source and MIT Licensed

## Getting Started

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